“She looked tiny. Her facial expression looked like ME as a child. Everyone in the room could see it. We didn’t have a way to let her know how badly we longed to meet her.”
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“She looked tiny. Her facial expression looked like ME as a child. Everyone in the room could see it. We didn’t have a way to let her know how badly we longed to meet her.”
“’Will you be able to drive? Work full time? Have children?’ I struggled to accept my fate. Secretly, I hoped I’d recover.”
“She studied the contents of her plate. ‘Why are you feeding me GRASS?’ I screamed in my mind. How could she not know what salad looks like?”
“One day, she could barely open her left eye. You know those situations in your life when everything changes and you didn’t even see it coming? This was one of those.”
“We were DEVASTATED. The whiplash of emotions was too much. ‘I have every intention of keeping you in her life.’ It wasn’t typical in foster care.”
“I rocked this child to sleep for 13 months. She knew me as her mom. We had NO idea what to expect for the future.”
“They’d been with 4 different families in the last 6 months. The kids needed someone who could teach them to be a friend, to love others, to be kind, and to just be good human beings.”
“I was pregnant and with my kids’ dad at the time, so I didn’t give him the time of day. He told me he had herpes. Just like that. After a year, and he is just now telling me.”
“I know immediately when someone is being genuine with me, and when someone is just ‘getting along to get along.'”
“I’m convinced my husband is dead if he’s even five minutes late. I can’t drive behind log trucks because I get actual full-on mental pictures of the post-accident carnage. But I do a terrific job of ‘pretending.'”